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Quotations About Age

Related: Old Age, Growing Old, Teenagers, Birthday

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
Following the Equator


I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
George Carlin
Brain Droppings, 1997


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres


Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman


The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball


The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner


You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Douglas MacArthur


Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Margaret Willour


Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Larry Lorenzoni


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis


True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut


Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson


In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.
Nikita Ivanovich Panin


Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig


Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughn


What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette


In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
E.B. White


Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns


Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
François La Roche


The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.
Unknown


The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning, you̢۪re not old.
Rosalyn S. Yalow


The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing


I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Unknown


Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Maggie Kuhn


Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Leroy "Satchel" Paig